Gandhara Buddhist art — which originated in the Kushan Empire, a Central Asian state founded by nomads originally from ...

The 233-foot Leshan Giant Buddha in Sichuan, China, is the world's tallest Buddha statue, built in 713 B.C.E. to calm ...

Loans of the tooth as a show of friendship have been an effective form of soft diplomacy by China, even though competing claims from various countries on possessing the Buddha’s tooth raise ...

The sculptural arts are one of the gems of the ancient Greek and Roman civilizations. Residents in North China’s Shanxi ...

BANGKOK (AP) — More than 2,000 people took part Wednesday in a procession to escort a relic of the Buddha lent by China to a shrine in the Thai capital Bangkok to honor the birthday of King Maha ...